Just for curiosity,the name of the sword of the King Arthur is excalibur and the name of?

Question

the sword of Ali the Muslim caliph is Zulfikar(I don't know the English word for it)
and both these people are known to have been very fair.I think there is something to do with a wolf at the begining of the Roman Empire and Turks believe that a wolf showed them the gateway to the land where they established their state.the name of the wolf which is believed to be the mother of Turks is Asena and there is a goddess in Greek mythology called Athena
Do you think all these are just coincidence?

Answer 1

many myths have common origins, so i guess that it just shows you that we all come from the same source.

Answer 2

Well I personally think it's true, because if it wasn't real then how would the people invent the name EXCALIBUR and the name king Arthur? Of course some would think that my answer is childish but that is what I believe in, if we think about God the other way around... Where and who created the name God? Of course no one because God is real so that answer goes for the EXCALIBUR and King Arthur too. "Every fantasy came from a true history"

Answer 3

You do not need to stretch historical memory back that far regarding the Turkish influence. As late as the 19th century, the Turkish Ottoman empire still controlled much of the Eastern Mediterranean.
This included their Anatolian heartland,Balkans,Lybia,Syria,
Egypt,Palestine,
Iraq and coastal Arabia.
Greeks,Kurds,Slavs,Armenians,
Jews,Circassians and Arabs were all ruled by Turks.
So, no surprise that there should be similarities between reports of historical events and names.
Zulfikar is a corruption of Dhu'l-Fakar [lit. "the possessor of the notch"] and was a sword obtained by the prophet Muhammad as booty at the Battle of Badr [in A.D. 624]. It is mentioned in the Hadith, the traditional sayings of the Prophet.
The name comes from notches or grooves on the blade, pl. fukra.

Answer 4

Zulfiqar was a scimitar, Excalibur was an English broadsword. Arthurian legends arose during the medieval period of chivalry and romance, idealised fiction for an oppressed England. This period also produced Robin Hood, another sentimentalised hero who would save the poor. Zulfiqar was said to have been the prophet Mohammed`s sword, later passed to his son-in-law Ali (7th century). Both swords arose during periods of religious fervour and great bloodshed, as Islam gained converts, and later Christians rampaged back and forth through the Holy Lands.The concept of magical swords is not uncommon amongst the bloodthirsty and warlike, and possibly Zulfiqar legends ie (almost cutting the world in half) were known to Europeans during the long periods of contact with Islam during endless crusades and holy wars. Both legends are of course unsupported by historical fact.

Answer 5

I would think that there is more to your obs than just coincidence. I'm sure that, given their proximity, there is a close connection between Greek and Turkish mythologies. Is it possible that Arthur came across the Muslim word "Zulficari" when he was a Crusader?

On the Roman Empire point, the myth goes that Rome was founded by two brothers, Romulus and Remus, who were suckled by a wolf when they were orphaned in infancy.

Have you any more intriguing points like those in your question.?

Answer 6

don't know about the sword names' similarity being any more than a coincidence, but the Asena and Athena names are so close it could be they come from a shared source. You'd have to know the original languages the two names come from.

Answer 7

maybe, maybe not. there are similarites between many religions and older mythologies. quite a few mythologies hae a great flood myth for instance.

Answer 8

Gobblegook and Jabberwocky !
It is all magic and foolishness to make the ignorant fear.
Carry on!!! :)
PS some of it is called plagiarism.

Answer 9

I like wang eyed lil's answer

Answer 10

What?